Laremy Tunsil – September 11, 2016 (Postgame)
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
Postgame – at Seattle
Transcribed by the Seattle Seahawks
Miami Dolphins G/T Laremy Tunsil (transcribed by the Seattle Seahawks)
(On his team’s performance…) “I thought we put everything on the line, but there’s always room for improvement. We will come back next week and do better.”
(On his performance playing left guard for the first time….) “I got to watch the film, so I really don’t know. ”
(On how the offensive line did protecting the quarterback…) “I feel like we executed in the run-pass. Like I said, there’s always room for improvement, next week we are going to bring it.”
(On the 86-yard drive late in the game and his quarterback’s play…) “He puts everything on the line, so you have to respect a quarterback like that. He’s a good guy, we put everything on the line for nobody to touch him.”
(On completing his first NFL game…) “It felt good, got the jitters out, but there’s always room for improvement, got to get ready for next week.”
(On the blocked field goal…) I got to look at the film. Correct what happened and get it right. We have to execute it next week.”
(On if there was a moment to remember most from this game….) “No but it’s my first game every, so it will always be a memory.”
Isa Abdul-Quddus – September 11, 2016 (Postgame)
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
Postgame – at Seattle
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Miami Dolphins S Isa Abdul-Quddus (transcribed by the Seattle Seahawks)
(On his interception…) “He started running around a little bit, so I just made sure I was as deep as possible when the ball was in the air and just try to go get it.”
(On points allowed to Seattle’s two-minute offense…) “I mean, it happened, they’re a good team. It was maybe a couple mistakes we made, but they’re a good team and we’re a good defense. They made some plays and we didn’t.”
Ryan Tannehill – September 11, 2016 (Postgame)
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Postgame – at Seattle
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Miami Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill (transcribed by the Seattle Seahawks)
(On how he felt about the offense and his performance up to Miami’s TD…) “We battled. We knew coming in that this was a good defense, and we were going to have to battle. I said earlier in the week, and it was kind of the message all week, we’ve just got to keep playing. Keep playing, keep playing, keep playing. We’ll make plays and eventually get into the end zone. Obviously, we thought it was going to be sooner. Obviously we thought we’d score more points. But we had our opportunities. We’d get some chances, and we didn’t connect on them, didn’t make happen. Those are big. You play a good team, you’ve got to make the opportunities you get in the scoring zone or long plays count.
(On the play that was run on a failed fourth-down play was the play called…) “Yeah, we had the run called, and didn’t get it. We knew coach likes to be aggressive in that situation. As a player you like that. You like that mentality, that belief in us that, hey, we can make it happen. The defense made a good play. So we have to correct that. If we get in that situation again we have to be able to pick up the first down and keep the chains rolling.”
(On what happened on the drop by Kenny Stills…) “We ran a little combination, a corner fell off and I threw it up to Kenny. I don’t know what happened on his end, but that’s football. We just moved on from it and kept playing. We had other opportunities other than that to make plays, and we didn’t make those, either. I saw a lot of good things from our guys. I saw guys battling, no panic throughout the game when things weren’t going well. We’re going three-and-out, there’s no panic. No stress. Just stay the course. Keep plugging away, believing in each other, and eventually things are going to happen. We finally got that drive in the fourth quarter to go ahead, and I saw a lot from my guys on that drive, just the character that we have, and the playmakers that we have.”
(On Seattle’s defense…) “I wouldn’t say they did anything crazy. They did some pressures that gave us trouble up front with the overloaded linemen; they put three on one side, and running all kind of games, and that’s tough to do up front, especially when they have good rushers like they do. That gave us a little bit of trouble. But they had shown that on tape. It wasn’t anything new. You just have to give credit to those guys. They came out and played hard. They put a little pressure on us and kept us from converting on a few third downs when we had opportunities to.”
(On teammates who kneeled during the national anthem…) “We had a team discussion about it. I never really considered joining it. But it’s to the man. That’s what it came down to. If you want to stand up or kneel for what you believe in, then that’s your right, and we support you doing it, just like I’m going to support the guys who stand. They’re my teammates, and everyone has a reason for doing what they’re doing. That’s America. You have to stand up for what you believe in, and when the national anthem is over, be ready to play.”
(On his rollouts…) “There were a couple of situations where they had it covered all the way, and a few scrambles that I had, they did a good job of matching up to our guys. I kept waiting for someone to break free, but they did a really nice job of matching up with our guys downfield.”
(On the unsuccessful fourth down during the second series after a big gain by Arian Foster…) “I’d have to go back and look at it. We tried a hard count and we didn’t get them.
(On what can be taken away from this game to build on…) “There’s always something you can take away, whether you win by 30 or lose by 30 or lose by two. Both sides of the ball battle, just kept playing, kept hanging tough. The defense played their tails off, really stuck with the offense all day. The offense, when things weren’t going well we just kept battling, kept hanging in there, then we made a play coming down the stretch in the fourth quarter. There’s a lot we can take away from this game, build on and move forward.”
Adam Gase – September 11, 2016 (Postgame)
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
Postgame – at Seattle
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Miami Dolphins Head Coach Adam Gase (transcribed by the Seattle Seahawks)
(Your thoughts on the fourth down dropped pass…) “Obviously if we catch it, it’s a big play. One play does not make a game. The biggest thing that we talked about the entire week was that bad things happen. You have to move on to the next play. My thing was how are we going to respond to this adversity?”
(Thoughts on the Dolphins offense being slow starting…) “We’re playing a really good defense. It’s tough keeping the ball. They did a really good job of taking away a lot of the things that we prepared for. We have to make some adjustments within the game. With these guys it’s a tough game of cat and mouse. They were one step ahead of us early. Some of the things that we had schemed by didn’t have our players in the best position possible. We tried to get through the game and make some adjustments as the game went on.”
(Towards the end of the game, did you feel your team had a pretty good shot at winning the game…) “What we had talked about was let’s get to the fourth quarter and see what happens. We had a chance, we took the lead. We had opportunities a couple of times to see if we could finish it on our terms. That’s what happens when you play good teams, it’s going to come down to probably the last drive of the game. It did and we came out on the wrong end this time.”
(Any second thoughts on going for it on fourth and inches…) “I’m going to do it a lot. That’s how were going to play.”
(Any thoughts on the Seahawks last drive…) “I thought our defense did a great job. To have us in the position we were in. I was more irritated that we couldn’t help them on the other side of the ball. We couldn’t get anything going. I kept watching those guys go out. I just knew we have to get something going because if we keep going three-and-out or four or five plays on the drive, it’s tough to put them in a bad situation on the other side of the ball, having that last drive to go down a score a touchdown. That’s what they needed there, a little bit of a rest so that we could compete on that last drive.”
(What did you say to your football team after the game…) “We can’t let one loss become two. We have 24 hours to feel sorry for yourself. Do whatever you want to do but we have to go on to the next opponent. We have to go on the road again. We have to get back to work.”
(What does that long touchdown drive by Tannehill in the fourth quarter say about him…) “Just the fact he went out there. Every time we come off a series, it what’s do we have to do now? The one thing that is big for us this being our first go as a group. Let’s not be the group that is white fingers and complaining about something that happened. Let’s be the group that’s finding solutions on the sideline. I felt like that’s exactly what that group was doing. Things weren’t going our way but they just kept coming back, what’s next, what should we go to, should we change up? They were trying to find solutions.”
(You had four players salute during the national anthem. What did you know about that beforehand…) ”I didn’t know exactly what they were going to do. I knew that Arian (Foster) wanted to talk to the group. They had a discussion. We said were not sure if we’re going to do anything. If we do, do something, we’re not looking to do anything disrespectful. There’s nothing I’m able to say one way or the other because it a person’s opinion, it’s their right. My job is to coach the football team.”
(On Seattle’s last drive, do they do anything different then what was expected…) “No, they just made some good plays. There were sometimes where we had some tight coverage. That’s what happens when you play a good team and a quarterback that is a franchise guy. That’s what he gets paid to do. He gets paid to figure out a way to make it work in the end.”
(What happened on the missed field goal…) “Just talking to (Darren) Rizzi, we had some leakage there. We will have to go back and figure out what the exact problem was. It’s unfortunate that it happened at that time in the game. Like I said earlier, we have to move on and figure out a way to put points on the board.”
(Do you have an update on Mario Williams…) “No, I have nothing right now. I have to talk to the trainers.”
(Thoughts on your defense…) “The whole defense did a great job. It’s not an easy scheme to go against. That’s a good group of players. Obviously there are a lot people who think that team is going to be one of the final teams this season. We’re playing a very tough team. Our defense did a great job, especially the d-line.
